Hasp-seal



UN rrED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE J. SAURBREY, OF COLUMBUS, OI-llO.

H A S P S EA L $PECIFIGATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 474,411, dated May 10, 1892. I Application filed April 29, 1891. $erial No. 390,933. (No model.)

T0 or whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE J. SAU'RBREY, a citizen of the United States, residing at O0- lumbus, in the county of Franklin and State of Ohio, have in vented a certain new and useful Improvement in Hasp-Seals, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to the improvement of hasp-seals of that class adapted for use in temporarily lockin g or sealing cases, cardoors, &c.

The objects of myinvention are to provide a seal for hasps of this class of superior construction and arrangement, by means of which a hasp may be so sealed as to prevent the latch-plate being disengaged therefrom without mutilating the seal, to produce said device in a simple and inexpensive form, and admit of its being applied in a rapid and 1e liable manner. These objects I accomplish in the manner illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a side elevation of a hasp havingits latch-plate sealed by myirnproved seal. Fig. 2 is a sectional View on line no 00 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a view in perspective of my improved seal when the body thereof is bent to the sealing position. Fig. 4 is an inner face view of the seal-strip before bending. Fig. 5 is an outer face View of the seal-strip before bending, and Fig. 6 is a view in perspective of a modified form of seal.

Similar letters refer to similar parts through out the several views.

a representsthe usual rigid hasp-plate,which is secured by screws a or otherwise to the frame-work of a box or car to be latched and sealed. From this plate (1 projects outwardly in the usual manner the arched end of a said strip is in use becomes the lower edge,

projects, as shown, a T-shaped lug or key d,

the stem of which is formed integral with said strip 0.

The manner of utilizing my improved seal is as follows: The latch-plate Z) having been dropped over the staple b in the usual manner, the seal-strip c is so supported as to enable the operator to insert the flat head of the laterally-projecting lug d of said strip lon tudinally Within the slot 12 of the latch-plate. hen in this position, the seal-strip is bent at the center of its width on its inner side, where, as shown, the body of said strip is somewhat thinner than elsewhere to embrace one of the arms of the staple b. In bringing the end portions of the strip together the pin 0 is made to enter, as shown, the pin-hole c and said strip is so turned as to bring the longer lower portion of the lug cl transversely beneath the slot b as shown in Fig. 2 of the drawings. This having been accomplished,- the outer projecting end portion of the pin 0 and the 0p posite outer side of the strip are grasped be- I tween the jaws of a suitable pair of sealingpliers and compressed until the end portions of said sealing-strip are not only clamped to ward each other, but the projecting head of the pin 0 is riveted or flattened against the outer side of the strip, as shown at e in Fig. 1. Upon this seal-head e may be impressed, as shown, any desired letter,design, or trademark, which may be produced by suitable die projections on the jaws of the pliers. It is obvious that when in the last-described position the lug d of the sealing-strip, owing to its position beneath the slot 11 will be prevented from being withdrawn therefrom, and thus serves to insure the seal-strip in its position. As an additional precaution against the escape of the seal-strip through the latch-plate slotor an undersirable upward movement of said latch-plate, I provide the seal-strip with the projecting stop-pins 0 From the construction and arrangement herein shown and described it is obvious that the latch-plate will be securely sealed against disengagement from the staple (Z and that said seal cannot be removed without mutilating the same. The soft material of which said seal-strip and its projections are formed will admit, however, of its being readily severed by a knife at its destination.

As shown in Fig. 6 of the drawings, I may employ a modified form of seal-strip which diffe'rs'from that above described only in having its central portion provided with an outwardly-proj ectin g flattened lu g f, which serves the purpose of the two oppositely-located pins 0 of the first-described seal. I am aware that a seal-strip has been employed heretofore wherein the ends of the strip were connected by a seal-pin; but my invention differs from such construction in the form and construction set forth in the claims.

Having now fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a hasp and seal therefor, the combination,w ith the fixed plate at, its projecting staple or keeper Z2, and hinged and slotted latch-plate .Z), of a soft metallic seal-strip c, a pin 0',

formed integral with and projecting from one end of said strip, a pin-opening c in the opposite end thereof, and a central laterallyprojecting T lug or key d, substantially as specified.

2. In a hasp-seal, the soft metallic strip 0, pin 0, )rojecting from one end thereof and formed integral therewith, pin-opening c on the opposite end of said strip, and one or more stop projections 0 formed with and projecting from the outer surface of said seal-strip, substantially as specified.

3. In a hasp and seal therefor, the combination, with the fixed plate a, staple 1), projecting therefrom, a slotted latch-plate I), through the slot of which loosely passes said staple, of soft metallic seal-strip 0, pin a, formed with and projecting from one end of said strip 0, an opening c on the opposite end of said strip, a T-lug d, projecting, as described, from one edge of said strip, and one or more stop-pins c projecting from the outerside of said sealstrip, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

I GEORGE J. SAURBREY.

In presence of BARTON GRIFFITH, C. O. SHEPHERD. 

